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Our next museum was the Kon Tiki museum. Thor Heyerdahl famously sailed this balsa raft from Peru to Polynesia in 1947, thereby proving the possibility that humans populated Polynesia via this route. Subsequent genetic analysis shows a much closer linkage with peoples from the Far East, nevertheless there is sufficient evidence that at least some voyages may have been made Kon Tiki's way. What ...

Our first port of call, having got ourselves organised was the Tourist Information Centre, again extremely conveniently situated in the same building, less than 50m from the hotel. Having been given some advice, including restaurant recommendations, we decided to use what was left of the afternoon and visit Frogner park, which has about 80 acres dedicated to the work of one Gustav Vigeland, who for over twenty ...

Computer day. Naively, I thought that it would be ready first thing this morning so that we could spend the morning picking it up, a good use of time as it was raining quite hard and there was not a lot else to do. This was not to be and by lunchtime, I was champing at the bit and had no responses to emails and couldn't get through on the phone. Tim (the technician) did however call me and ...

... Icelandic version, John on a lamburger, hey, its food. After a casual look around the top we shared Bruce the cable car with a bunch of munchkins from the day care centre at the base of the mountain. Little rats snitched the front window, and boy did they enjoy the trip down, almost let me forgive them! We had to wait 20 minutes in the sun for the bus, which was a bit of a pain, but sun’s better than rain isn’t it? Back in town we wandered around ...

... taking in the sights and getting a feel for Bergen. Around mid day we took the Fernicular to the top of Mt Floyen and enjoyed the city from above. I would recommend taking this short trip to the top as the view is spectacular. Bergen occupies most of the peninsula of Bergenshalvøyen. Most of the urban area is located on or close to a fjord or bay, although there are several mountains located within the urban ...